Jon Snow Interviewing Vitaly Milonov (super homophobe)

Interviewer: Jon Snow

Context: Channel 4 interview on prolific Russian Homophobe Vitaly Milonov

Purpose: Demonstrate to the British Public how homophobic Vitaly is.

Question Types: Closed questions. Persisting the interviewer stays on topic.

Structure: No developmental questions, gets straight to the point. Jon Snow is purposefully wearing a rainbow tie as a blatant way to antagonise Vitaly. No confidence building, for obvious reasons.

Communication Skills: Very blunt, no attempt at building a rapport between himself and the interviewee.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy Interviews Richard Ayoade (comedian/actor/author and other stuff)

Interviewer: Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Context: The interviewee, Richard Ayoade is brought on the show to promote his new book.

Purpose: Promoting/Not promoting Richard Ayoade's book.

Question Types: Krishnan asked closed questions with the hopes of getting in depth answers. An example of this would be

Structure: Developmental questions were asked.

Communication Skills: Krishnan clearly lacked communication skills in this interview as he consistently failed to attain real answers to his questions. Richard, throughout the interview, gave facetious answers to every question he was asked by Krishnan leading him to reply with "I get that. But give me something in return…" in an attempt to get at least some valuable information from Richard.

In Depth Analysis

Jon Snow interviewed prolific Russian Homophobe Vitaly Milonov for channel 4. The intent of this video was to demonstrate how homophobic Vitaly is. An example of this was getting him to admit that he believed homosexuality and pedophilia go hand in hand. He asked closed, blunt questions to get precise answers from Vitaly without him having an opportunity to preach hate to the audience watching. Jon didn't ask developmental questions to make Vitaly feel at ease because of the nature of the interview. If Jon appeared to be soft on Vitaly there would be a chance that there would be a large amount of backlash from the interview including complaints to Ofcom. Jon tried to antagonise Vitaly by wearing a rainbow striped tie as rainbows are associated with the LGBT flag and LGBT pride/support. This made it obvious from the beginning of the video that he had no intentions of forming a rapport with Vitaly.